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These are not generally the fault of the manufacturer. The first had to do with migrating from an older mac to the newer one, and sort of messing things up. I had to call Apple, and their tech helped me free of charge. The second issue was a major physical fall that the mac took in May of 2013. This caused the mac not to boot correctly…It generally would crash on the login screen, and when I learned to disable the login screen, it still would crash after about 45 seconds of use. This had me thinking I was going to have to buy a new model for awhile.
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#Winclone 4 review how to#īut then I figured out how to fix the crash. What was actually damaged in the fall was the battery sensor and indicator. I figured out that simply unplugging that from the motherboard was a sufficient fix. It disabled the battery indicator light, but I rarely used that anyway.
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Tinkering around inside my mac for hours and hours eventually afforded me the bravery to upgrade the hard drive. I opted to go for a hybrid drive, a classic hard drive with a flash drive component. I have been pretty happy with that so far, but it doesn’t make your computer as responsive as an iPad or anything, as sort of advertised. In upgrading drives, though, I lost my Windows Partition. This is why I wanted that back so badly.) (My old Windows had Magic Online, Digitech GNX4 software, and Steam. I explored a few different options before arriving at WinClone. I tried to clone the partition with Disk Utility…Nah.Įver the cheapskate, I considered what I perceived to be free options. I tried to get Windows to boot from a USB powered Drive Caddy.
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Mac OSX can boot from USB!) I read forums…The name that kept coming up was WinClone.
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So I finally dished out the $30.Īfter the transaction was complete, and the download, I had to activate the software with a key they e-mailed to me. I didn’t realize it, thought until I was already trying to clone my drive! It gave me a warning! That was nothing, though.Īfter authenticating, it still wouldn’t work. So I sent an e-mail expressing regret over spending $30 on a product that doesn’t work. The company that makes WinClone is called TwoCanoes Software.

A girl from TwoCanoes named Sarah began e-mailing me the next day, and telling me to try a few different things. None of her suggestions were working, so she passed my problem up to another technician, one who I gather is more high powered named Russell. Russell insisted more or less that I run “ChkDsk” on my source drive. I rolled my eyes as I borrowed my computer from work and tried to circumvent the restrictions and access the command line.

When I ran WinClone after using ChkDsk, it worked like a charm.

It cloned my 25GB Windows Partition onto a new roomier 200 GB partition! No setup hassles, buy a new copy of Windows, nothing. It was Wednesday before I got it straightened out. I suppose that could be a strike against WinClone. But it isn’t because I wasn’t running “ChkDsk” when it actually instructs you to in the software.
